In a documentary produced by the BBC and Red Bull Studios, which airs in the UK on Wednesdays, Mo Farah reveals some of the darkest moments of his childhood. The quadruple Olympic champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters (2012 and 2016) first states that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.
But at the age of eight or nine, he was taken to Djibouti while living in Somalia with his parents and two brothers. It is from this East African country that he flies to the United Kingdom with a woman he does not know and with whom he has no family ties. So this woman smuggles him to the United Kingdom and tells him that his name is Mohammed Farah, resulting in false papers.
“For years, I kept it in my heart”
Mo Farah, four-time Olympic champion
The woman then escorts Mo Farah to her flat in Hounslow, west London, where the founder will be considered ” domestic “ And instead of food, you will have to do household chores. “For years, I kept her in my heart”, Mo refers to Farah who had always confirmed that he had come from Somalia with his parents as a refugee, while his original family had never set foot in England.
When he was four years old his father was murdered and he still lived in Somalia where his mother and brother still live. Even as he talks about his years away from his family, Mo Farah says: “I often locked myself in the bathroom and cried. ,
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